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The Role of Workfare in Striking a Balance between Incentives and Insurance in the Labour Market

Andersen, Torben M. - 2008

Workfare policies are often introduced in labour market policies to improve the trade-off between incentives and … equilibrium search framework, we show that the effects of workfare policies critically depend on the response of those not in the … programme when they take into account that workfare is a condition for remaining eligible for unemployment benefits. This …

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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies : The Role of Job Search Assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2010

This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...

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Welfare Benefit Reforms and Employment

Aloi, Marta - 2017

We consider an economy characterised by involuntary unemployment among low skilled workers, and investigate the implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment benefits in favour of income subsidies (social...

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Labor Market Policy : A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010

I review theories and evidence on labor market policies and institutions in an international context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and active labor market policies. Scandinavia and Central...

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Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Devlopment? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes

Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012

This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the...

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Screening Through Activation : Differential Effects of a Youth Activation Programme

Hall, Caroline - 2017

We study the dual role of active labour market policies: First, ALMP may perform a screening role by increasing job-finding rates among individuals with good labour market prospects, already prior to programme participation. Second, actual program participation may help individuals with poor...

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Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?

Lechner, Michael - 2013

This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in specific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we exploit that German local...

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Contracting Out Mandatory Counselling and Training for Long-Term Unemployed. Private For-Profit or Non-Profit, or Keep it Public?

Cockx, Bart - 2015

This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...

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Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2021

Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates of typical active labour market programs for the...

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Reduction of Employment Protection in Europe : A Comparative Fuzzy-Set Analysis

Ochel, Wolfgang; Hülsewig, Anja - 2021

Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the...

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